CES Gets More and More Mobile

The easily excitable tech leader delivered a calm, focused and anything but rememberable address to the thousands amassed in the Las Vegas desert for four days to hear the latest in consumer technology.

Ballmer and Microsoft are two of the bigger names to attend CES this year and in that lies the problem for some.

Photos: Consumer Electronics 2012

Many of techs biggest names no longer attend the annual convention, where companies are expected to announce new products.

This year was Microsoft's final swan song as well. Ballmer had announced before Monday's keynote that he no longer intended to bring his company to he dessert to start the new year.

But Microsoft did not cite the lack of big names, like other tech insiders have, but instead the company said the event did not align with its normal product design cycle to make an announcement.

With that in mind Ballmer did not talk about new products. Instead he addressed where Microsoft has been the past year.